Just a small contingent of Pharmamar’s staff, which is, with a total of 262 employees, one of the main biotechnological companies in Spain. Ph ot os (5 ): P ha rm am ar Like Captain Nemo, the mysterious character created by Jules Verne, Jose María Fernández Sousa-Faro decided to seek his fortune in the depths of the oceans. His reasons were not, however, as obscure as Nemo’s. He had inherited t...

The responsibilities for products and processes are usually split between the organisational, IT or financial divisions. Connections and interdependencies are consequently often only insufficiently recognised. Integrated product and process models (IPP) are a highly promising approach to counter these deficits. Based on an IPP framework, we describe a modelling approach that aims at an Integrat...

During the last two years an extensive review of deer-vehicle crash (DVC) countermeasure documentation has been completed. Research and/or documents related to 16 different countermeasures were reviewed and are currently being summarized in a DVC Countermeasures Toolbox. An example of some of the countermeasure research reviewed includes documents related to deer whistles, warning signs and tec...

The GE-CMU team is developing the TIPSTER/SHOGUN system under the governmentsponsored TIPSTER program, which aims to advance coverage, accuracy, and portability in tex t interpretation . The system will soon be tested on Japanese and English news stories in tw o new domains . MUC-4 served as the first substantial test of the combined system. Because th e SHOGUN system takes advantage of most of...

The purpose of our collaborative research is to explore the qualifications necessary in a teacher’s toolbox effectively support needs students with disabilities. Students physical, intellectual, behavioural and/or developmental disabilities that impede their ability continuously and be integrated into traditional classroom setting will require supports from specialised teachers outside resource...

The NEMO collaboration is looking to measure neutrinoless double beta decay down to a lower limit of 0.1 eV for the effective neutrino mass. The NEMO 3 detector is now operating in the Fréjus Underground Laboratory. The expected performance and the data of the first runs are presented here.

We address in this article the description and usage of component protocols viewed as specific services. In addition to inter-component service composition, our Kmelia component model supports vertical structuring mechanisms that allow service composition inside a component. The structuring mechanisms (namely state annotation and transition annotation) are then used to describe protocols which ...